Category Archives: Events

27 degrees, cloudy, and windy with snow flurries. It’s now 28 degrees, cloudy and windy with snow flurries. With the wind chill we are down into the teens. Low tonight of 17. I went to the gym and bank and … Continue reading →

Gym this morning. The temperature when we went out was 46 and sunny but windy. With no precipitation in the forecast for the week I finally had a chance to wash the car. However, we go from a high today … Continue reading →

Another volunteer day with the Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Yesterday was preparation for today’s Brineger Cabin Day. Each year the Friends hold a celebration day doing crafts such as making apple butter, dying and spinning wool, etc. showing … Continue reading →

It’s been a long but rewarding. I drove over to Boone, NC, about an hour and half away this morning to the Modern Subaru dealership. The only Subaru dealership close by is in Winston but it is owned by a … Continue reading →

Had a great weekend away. I met my friend Marcy for dinner on Friday night. Frances and Al had an early evening event planned. Saturday morning we Al, Frances, and a friend Bob Mays and I left Winston around 8 … Continue reading →

Today is the Mountain Heritage Festival in downtown Sparta. I signed up to work in the museum from 10 – 1:30. We also had a tent on the sidewalk outside the museum where we were selling local history publications, cakes, … Continue reading →

I had some errands to run in town this morning. Update on the husky. JoAnne texted me yesterday afternoon that she had escaped through a window knocking out a window screen. They searched for her but never did find her. … Continue reading →

Off to the gym this morning. My friend JoAnne is going by the shelter this morning to adopt our little husky friend I took to the shelter on Wednesday. They are going to name her Macey. Since they needed a … Continue reading →

Yesterday morning when I was going over to the neighbor’s house a man in a pick up stopped and introduced himself. He asked if I knew about a stray dog running loose and described our little husky friend that has … Continue reading →